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That no government, so called, can reasonably be trusted, or reasonably be supposed to have honest purposes in view, any longer than it depends wholly upon voluntary support.
That no government, so called, can reasonably be trusted, or reasonably be supposed to have honest purposes in view, any longer than it depends wholly upon voluntary support.
Approximate author period: c. 1847 AD · industrial
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- Lysander Spooner
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- Approximate author period: c. 1847 AD · industrial
Approximate period for the recorded attribution to Lysander Spooner, based on documented lifetime 1808 to 1887. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q538091 (checked 2026-10-08). This is not a quotation composition date or independent authentication of its attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q538091 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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